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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) - With the lockout at AK Steel's Middletown Works entering its 11th month, leaders of the union representing some 1,800 workers have done an about-face. They are now embracing contract terms that members overwhelmingly rejected in October.
The union has dropped its opposition to outsourcing work, the union president said, but wants assurances that the company won't use rigorous back-to-work physicals as a way to get rid of hundreds of longtime employees and strip them of pension and health care benefits.
"I think the big reason the contract was voted down was the lack of any right to protect our members from that sort of dismissal," said Brian Daley, president of the International Association of Machinists Local Lodge 1943.
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